Teaching Climate Science in the Elementary Classroom
A Place-Based, Hope-Filled Approach to Understanding Earth’s Systems
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Teaching Climate Science in the Elementary Classroom
A Place-Based, Hope-Filled Approach to Understanding Earth’s Systems
About this book
Discover new ways to help elementary students engage with and understand the world around them through place-based, hope-filled learning about the causes, impacts, and responses to climate change. This book features foundational climate concepts, easily implementable activity plans, and inspiring examples of student engagement. Each chapter begins with a short vignette pulled from the author's considerable teaching experience in engaging students in concepts of climate change and climate justice, followed by content-focused sections and recommendations for student activities and projects. The author provides stories of hope-filled action to invite teachers to look for and reflect on similar narratives in their own communities. Sample units of study for grades K-5 show teachers how key ideas from each chapter come together into an instructional plan that incorporates the three dimensions of NGSS and can fit into the broader outline of their school year. This resource is an accessible tool to support any elementary educator in building their own knowledge base and integrating the important and timely issues of climate change into their classroom.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Foreword—Dr. Kelley Lê
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Do Little Kids Really Need to Be Thinking about Climate Change?
- 2 Interconnectedness
- 3 The Carbon Cycle: Exploring Systems through Story
- 4 Getting to Know Trees and Forest Systems
- 5 The Ocean as a Global System
- 6 Cities: Human and Natural Systems Working Together
- 7 The Food We Eat and the Food We Waste
- 8 (Sustainable) Energy
- 9 When Harm Comes to Our Communities: Teaching and Learning in the Presence of Natural and Human Disasters
- 10 Toward a Pedagogy of Hope-Filled Action